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It is a place where flyers of all experience levels can meet to discuss and exchange up-to-date undistorted...

The team at FLYER knows how extraordinary that solo feeling is, and we’d like to help you celebrate with a special FLYER memento. If you sends us a photo of you with your solo aircraft, along with the date that you soloed, you can receive an email...

Have three free issues on us!

Got your PPL recently? Congratulations, we'd like to help you celebrate by sending you THREE free issues of Flyer* All you need to do is to send us a copy of your licence (photocopy, fax, scan etc.) and we'll do...

Every day is a school day - some more so than others - but we never stop learning.

We would all like to know about and join in celebrating noteworthy milestones along the path of your aviation career - whether that be private or commercial. This...

For the benefit of those considering a PPL(A) and wanting to know time and cost, I’m sharing my experience based upon detailed records I kept. This is just my way through it, yours may differ, but I hope it gives you some insight and food for...

I know i've read it here somewhere....but naturally now I can't find it.

After airlaw, what do people recommend as the next exam? I've heard both operational procedures or human factors.......but would be grateful for advice.

For a while I've been meaning to put together a little compilation of "stuff that helped" while I was learning to fly. I got around to it in the end (almost a year after getting the PPL...) and the result is now here(PDF) .

It's less a...

The team at FLYER knows how extraordinary that solo feeling is, and we’d like to help you celebrate with a special FLYER memento. If you sends us a photo of you with your solo aircraft, along with the date that you soloed, you can receive an email...

My first proper lesson . ...

Woke up to fog, rang aerodrome, they reported decent cloud base and some blue sky.

As I drove down the weather improved and we ended up with scattered above 3,000', blue skies, wind light, almost straight down the...

Hi all,

Another Rob here looking to join the ranks. I've been wanting to fly for many years now and having worked my way trawling though a lot of forum posts, YouTube videos, and a fair chunk of the APMs, I've decided it's time to get on with it....

Hi Everyone, same old story, wanted to do it all my life and finally taken the plunge. Based out of Manchester Barton in a C172 Skyhawk. Trial flight was in a PA-28.

First actual lesson 06/10/21 - zero knowledge or experience/blank canvass (other...

TL;DR: jump to “my query”. Apologies if this is the wrong sub, feel free to move it or let me know where I can post this (maybe "Licensing, EASA, CAA, and the ANO" ?)

Good day everybody, I hope you’re all well.

The context:

I’m a...

Any current or recent Students from the Forum fancy a meet up at the Duxford Flying Day on the 9th Oct?

Also the kind folks who have spent time offering valuable advice and comforting words to us all.

This idea is hot off the press so comes...

Hey all, so last week, I managed to successfully re-pass my CPL skills test, for the second time, granting me an EASA CPL...again. Seems like there shouldn't be any issues from the NAA so now I have to decide what I want to do next, with my ATPLs...

Hi All,

I'm approaching my skills & mock test, done my QXC, fly at a FISO controlled field and can transit controlled space etc, reading CAP 413 and safety sense 22 any tips for passing the RT exam and practical?

Wayne

This is a student question, although might be thought of as a postgraduate student question, as it were!

I have my NPPL(A) with Microlight Rating and fly a 3-axis (Zenair 601). I learnt on the C42, which can be (although 99% of the time isn't)...

Evening all,

Bit of an intro. I thought I'd done one already but seems like it was not posted or I didn't press the right button.

Was in the ATC as a yoof and did as much flying as I could. Uni, life, SWMBO, job etc. in the intervening years...

Something came up in a mock skills test yesterday.

You find yourself off your track. You need to correct obviously

Do people correct to arrive at the destination. or correct to get back on track and then continue on your original track?

Is this...

I was hoping for a first very short solo-navex this morning but the wind wasn’t looking you be too good at 3,000 so we went to do bad weather circuits as the penultimate air exercise of my LAPL (with precautionary landings as the other one left). I...

With the e-exams being in place for a reasonable period of time now & the lack of question bank, I've been curious as to the pass rate & how other students are getting on with them.

I'm aware there's been an article published with data on...

I took my first e-exams yesterday (Air Law & Ops Proc) and passed both…hooray!! Although a couple of questions wrong and I’m intrigued to know where I went wrong, and what the right answers should have been. I received the standard PDF...

Month or so back I asked re advisability of binning all whizz efforts entirely and using only the CX-3 flight computer (£140 USA made calculator really)

- passed today with v respectable score
- having listened to advice here I did (ok somewhat...

Hello 15 and I really want to be a pilot in the future however I’m going on to collage and don’t know what I should take that will help me be a pilot in the future. This is for collage a levels , I asked some people they go on about talking...

:cyclopsani: :cyclopsani: :cyclopsani: enjoyed it in a perverse kind of way. Gets really real / terrifying for about 15 secs then done - relief lol :lol:

Had one go around. Though landing was super smooth.

CT2K, Really quite different one up,...

I am going to have to take a COMPASS aptitude test eventually to get in with a aptl programme, what would be the best way to prepare for it? any recommendations for sites etc?

Hi All,

I'm guessing like many, I have reached that point in life (kids left home, mortgage paid, done motorbikes) that I am seriously considering turning a lifelong dream into reality.

I have been in love with aviation from childhood but the...

Evening all, apologies but I feel the need to let off some steam and agitation from my first solo.

So, today was my first solo and I felt ready. Did a few circuits with the instructor, a few not so perfect landings but overall, happy.

Went great,...

Hi all,

Just wanted to confirm if this would be correct for an overhead join, I see many examples of overhead joins inbound from the live side but none from the dead side. This is what I would normally do.

Blue indicates where I would overfly the...

Hello!

I've always wanted to learn to fly and fortunately I am in a position now to make a start and plough through it at a decent rate.

Unfortunately, now that I'm set on and able to learn to fly, seems everything is against me!

I had a trial...

Only now getting around to write this, but since a month ago or so I've finally taken the plunge on the way to a PPL. :-D

It's been about 15 years since the idea of learning to fly came into my head, for some reason always seemed out of my reach....

Are there any app recommendations that won’t break the bank to log and review my student flights?

Some of the flying school aircraft don’t have mode s transponders so don’t show on Flightradar24.

I’m just looking for something to log and show...

Hi everybody,

I'm completely new to the world of aviation. I've got my trial lesson booked but it's been moved a few times due to weather so I figure I would ask some questions here if that's possible!

My first one is I'm unsure of the ppl or lapl...

Hi all,

I am taking my first steps in learning to fly I think I have selected a suitable flight school however as part of the training they state that 12 hours must be spent in their ground school as a CAA requirement.

Is this correct?

I cannot...

Having just purchased my South of England 1:500 chart in preparation for starting my nav work , I’m wondering why I didn’t buy the 1:250. I’m not likely to be flying in any exam outside of 100 miles of Elstree and the greater scale would be give me...

Added Leicester and Fenland to my "Aerodromes Visited" log yesterday... thoroughly enjoyable even though being limited to 1000 feet with not great visibility. Was a NavEx (instructor present) but he didn't have to intervene once... At...

Hello All,

My name is Rob (46) and I am new to this forum and the world of flying although I have always been interested in aviation - wife has now arranged for my first trial flight as birthday present (have always said I would love to learn to...

Hi,

I'm around 2/3 through a LAPL and all going well - things going up, down and generally happily around about the place as billed.

Plan:

I want to take up my OH and children and I'm aware of the need for 10hrs post-qualification flying. This...

Hi,
I’m doing PPL training and have around 12 hours on a 152. Ive been offered a TMG to finish my training on for crazy cheap. My question is can you log hours on a TMG towards PPL?
The instructor I have is also a TMG trainer.
Thanks in advance...

All this talk about flying risk and family has reaffirmed my enthusiasm for having some time with an instructor to practise flying in degraded situations. To be clear, I've no plans to fly in IMC, but as we've read: many bad situations began with...

Hi guys

Student pilot here, I'm looking for advice and recommendations on which handheld radio to buy?
This is to be used to listening to air traffic and learn from, as well as to be used as a redundancy for if the in plane radio fails.

Thanks...

So I'm in my 30s, never really considered learning to fly until a few months ago, never been near a light aircraft, but somehow I have become keen on the idea over the last few months.

I'm in the West of Scotland, where the weather is frequently...

I'm currently revising for my air law exam by taking the Air Quiz online exams to highlight gaps in my knowledge. However, there is one question on temperature effects on altimeters which either Im not understanding right, or the air quiz answer is...

Thought I'd start a new thread now that I've graduated from 'New' to 'Novice' :)

Lesson #2 today, and it was absolutely brilliant. Lots and lots of learning. Brace for a bit of a long blether:

The weather was officially CAVOK but the haze was...

This has been asked previously however not as far as I can see in the last year or so and the CAA site doesn't definitively help far as I can see:

I want to take Nav next week. Have all this week to study because I work from home and nobody's...

Since qualifying I have been regularly returning to PPL cruiser to take their proficiency test, and recently (re) paid my £4 for this quarter's refresher, along with the IMC question bank in anticipation of taking that rating soon. Both times my...

Any have this book on pdf format please

Envoyé de mon SM-A125F en utilisant Tapatalk

Skip to 50 secs if short on time. I've also put up a go around on my channel, where I touch down but know it's going to bounce.

Instructor has put me on insurance for solo but it feels like it keeps going further into the future...

Last week...

I'm about to start my NPPL training this week in a C42 after spending years dithering about I decided it's about time I got on with it :)

I've been digging around on forums and online for recommendations of ground school training materials and...

Hi,

I started my LAPL training end of May and working through circuits hoping to solo very soon. I have all the usual text books etc and have links to various online training sites etc.

I'm looking for any links to good Podcasts that cover the...

I had a trial lesson recently. I was really enjoying the experience for about 45 mins, and then my stomach had other ideas.

I had to use a sick bag. I was mortified. But it didn't faze the instructor who told me he'd experienced the same thing on...

Hi All

New to this forum and just wanted to get thoughts.

I am looking to start my PPL training in April 2022 and am just researching and planning ahead (time and financial) I need to pre plan in terms of time etc due to a busy work and family...

Evening all,

Looking into getting my first flight board / knee board. PPL student, 3 hours in, cack-handed (I fear this is going to be a challenge to be able to write stuff down and promptly use the PTT - might have to try to master right handed...

Hi all

Joined a week or so ago, I've been wanting to learn to fly for years, but (like most I assume) never had both the time and the money (and some would argue...) to commit to the PPL.

However, I'm now at the point where it makes sense to start...